Dharampal
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Dharampal, is a Gandhian thinker, historian and philosopher from India. He authored The Beautiful Tree, and Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century, among other seminal works. He was born in January 1922 in a rich family of Kandhla, a small town in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh
His books are based on British documents of surveys conducted in India. He excelled at dispelling colonial myths about India and at bringing out the real strength, achievements and working of the Indian society. His complete works were published a few years ago by Other India Press, Goa, in six volumes
He passed away on October 24, 2006 at Sevagram (Gandhi’s ashram) near Wardha (Maharashtra).
He is survived by a son and two daughters. His son, David, lives in London and a daughter, Gita, is a professor of history at Heidelberg University of Germany. His wife died in London in 1986
